Sack-holder.



E.- F. KANDLBINDEB.

SACK HOLDER.l x APrLIoArIoN FILED und, 1910.

Patented 0013.18, 1910.

EMELIA F. KANDLBINDER, OF SI-IREVEPORT, LOUISIANA.

SACK-HOLDER.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

`Patented Got. 18, 1910.

Application filed May 7, 1910. Serial No. 560,072.

T 0 all Iwhom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMELIA F. KANDL- BINDER, citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Shreveport, in the parish of Caddo and State ofLouisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sack-Holders, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention has for its object, a simple and efficient constructionof device for holding or suspending a bag or sack with its mouth indistended condition, and the invention consists in certainconstructions, arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shallhereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings in which:

Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views illustrating differentapplications of my improved sack holder; Fig. 3 is a similar view of thedevice detached; and; Fig. 4 is a side view of the device.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

My improved bag or sack holder is constructed out of a single piece orlength of spring wire of suitable strength and stiffness, the wire beingtwisted upon itself at an intermediate point as indicated at 1 to forman attaching stem or shank. After the wire is twisted to form the shank1, it is separated and curved in opposite directions to form a completeintermediate loop or convolution 2, and is then continued in oppositedirections to form an upper one-half convolution 3 and a lower one-halfconvolution 4, the wire being thence extended so as to form twosuspension arms 5 that are disposed in divergent relation to each otheras clearly illustrated in the drawing, the arms being designed to besprung together to the necessary extent to engage the rim of a bag orsack.

Each of the arms 5 is provided intermediate of its ends with two crimps6, said crimps being spaced from each other as shown and extendingoutwardly and upwardly in a plane oblique to the planes of theconvolutions 2, 8 and 4. At the terminus of the outer crimps 6, therespective arms 5 have their extremities outwardly deflected asindicated at 7.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the operation of my improved bag and sack holder will beapparent.

In the practical use of the device, the suspending or outstanding arms 5may either be inserted within the mouth rim of the sack to be held openor the mouth rim may be turned outwardly into engagement with the crimps6 of the arms. That is to say, in the practical use of the device, thearms 5 may be brought together suiiiciently to permit of the crimps 6being inserted within the mouth rim of a sack to engage therewith,whereupon by releasing the arms, the spring tension thereof will causethem to spread outwardly away from each other, the crimps therebysecurely engaging the mouth of the sack, the two sides thus formed,being held respectively by the crimps in the angle between the outermostcrimps and the outwardly deflected ends 7, and in the shoulders formedby the juncture of the innermost crimps with the adjacent inner portionof the arms. If desired, instead of the precise arrangement justdescribed, the mouth of the sack may be inserted between the distendingarms 5 and the rim' of the sack turned over upon the crimp, these twomethods of engaging the device with a sack or bag are illustratedrespectively in Figs. 1 and 2.

My improved sack holder may be supported in the hand or in any otherdesired way, Figs. 1 and 2 illustrating two diiierent ways in which thedevice may be supported. For instance, as illustrated in Fig. 1 the stem1 may be inserted downwardly into a socket 8 that is formed in a metalor other bracket 9 secured by screws or other fastening devices to theside of a shed or other suitable support. Or, as illustrated in Fig. 2,the convolutions which form a loop or eye, may be slipped over a stickdriven in the ground, so as to support the bag holder in this way.

Having thus described, the invention, what is claimed as new is:

The herein described sack-holder, oo n.- structed of a single piece ofspring wire twisted upon itself intermediate of its ends to form anattaching shank, the` wire being then separated and coiled in oppositedirections to form a complete intermediate con Volution, upper and lowerone-half convolutions constituting an eye, the wire being then extendedfrom the one-half oonvolutions to form outstanding arms which divergeoutwardly from the coiled portions, each of said arms being formed withan inner crimp and an outer crimp, said crimps extending outwardly andupwardly in planes oblique to the planes of the convolutions, theouteri0 most crimps terminating in outwardly delected extremities.

In testimony whereof, I aiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMELIA F. KANDLBINDER. Witnesses:

" SYLVESTER N. KANDLBINDER,

LoU POWELL.

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